They are a developer’s charter and you can just see the day when Robert Genrick, housing minister, will be sitting on the board of a big builder’s and getting huge ‘remuneration’ once he retires as an MP. That’s how the tories work.
Yes we need starter homes (it was NEVER easy buying your first property) but let’s examine the facts that have caused the housing shortage. 100,000 more people per year have entered this country than have left for the last two decades. Blair opened the floodgates and Cameron and May couldn’t close them due to our membership of the EU. Now we are out but Boris is doing an Attlee with a master plan to concrete over this green and pleasant land. Local residents will have no say in what is build on ‘designated’ land. This isn’t nimbism just caring about your local environment.
In case anyone thinks I myself am being selfish I had an application for a dwelling on a plot of land next to me refused last year so I suppose the new laws might help me personally but I don’t want to see the old system torn into shreds. We need to protect the countryside.
The actual indigenous population of the UK is falling and I reckon the market would adjust itself in time. We need a return to 95% mortgages – the credit crunch was not due to 1000s of ordinary folk defaulting on their repayments. That was caused by the fecking greedy banks who had to be baled out. Osborne, our worst ever chancellor, decided to blame Mr Average instead and made applications much more draconian. The bastard.
Most youngsters pay more in rent than a mortgage would cost they just can’t get a huge deposit together. And town centres will NEVER go back to what they were. Convert the buildings into economic flats and develop brown field sites. Developers hate doing this because it costs more than shoving up new housing on virgin land and reduces their profits. So fecking what! Do something for your country rather than your pockets for once.
1000s of migrants are returning to their own (eastern europen) countries as the pickings aren’t so easy here any longer now that we don’t have to abide by EU regulations. This will free up a lot of public housing which can then be allocated to our own people.
We need evolution rather than revolution but I guess that doesn’t sound so good in Boris’ soundbites.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-build-build-build
Nominated by: Lord Helpuss



